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Monthly Archives: December 2012

igraph is a library for "complex network research". While it integrates very well with R and provides a lot of convenient functions, huge graphs put a quick end to all the joy. The good news is: not all functions in igraph have bad performanc...

Here. Indeed, I’d much rather be a legend than a myth. I just want to clarify one thing. Walter Hickey writes: collaborated on this presentation where they take a hard look at what’s wrong with the recent trends of data visualization and infographics. The takeaway is that while there have
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I had a bit of a play with Shiny over the weekend, using the Ergast Motor Racing Data API and the magical Shiny library for R, that makes building interactive, browser based applications around R a breeze. As this is just a quick heads-up/review post, I’ll largely limit myself to a few screenshots. When I

Oftentimes we find ourselves collaborating with others who might not use R or prefer to use Stata to clean and manage their data. Luckily, there is the foreign package that permits handling data of different types (SAS, SPSS, Stata, etc.) within the R...

I already talked about networks a few times in this blog. In particular, I had this approach to explain spatial segregation in a city or to solve the Guess Who? problem. However, one of the question is how to generate a good network. Indeed, I aim to study strategy to split a network, but I...

In celebration of my achieving 10,000 “reputation” on Stack Overflow, I’m re-posting one of my questions from there that was (as I had expected) deleted after being live for about 5 hours. In that time, I never really got a satisfactory answer, so if anyone wants to offer one in the comments, that would be

Lattice plots are a great way of displaying multivariate data in R. Deepayan Sarkar, the author of lattice, has written a fantastic book about Multivariate Data Visualization with R . However, I often have to refer back to the help pages to remind myself how to set and change the legend and how to ensure that...

The cube, 41063625 (3453), can be permuted to produce two other cubes: 56623104 (3843) and 66430125 (4053). In fact, 41063625 is the smallest cube which has exactly three permutations of its digits which are also cube.Find the smallest cube for which exactly five permutations of its digits are cube.
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New York Times columnist Charles Blow needed a chart to accompany his op-ed piece Lincoln, Liberty and Two Americas (about one-party control in state legislatures). So he turned to resident graphic editor Kevin Quealy, who found the source data and used R to create the chart below: If you'd like to create similar charts yourself, Kevin provides a useful...

A nice, but not very well known, interface to R is TeXmacs. (I have to say that I am not totally objective, since I wrote the interface between R and TeXmacs…) Here’s a sample window: In the following few posts I’d like to explain how to use this interface. Installation First, install TeXmacs. Best is